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octahedrite

[ ok-tuh-hee-drahyt ]

noun

Mineralogy.


octahedrite

/ ˌɒəˈːɪ /

noun

  1. another name for anatase
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of octahedrite1

1795–1805; < Late Latin octahedr ( os ) eight-sided < Greek ǰáDz ( octahedron ) + -ite 1
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“It’s a plessitic octahedrite, which I don’t know a whole lot about. But apparently, it’s super, super rare.”

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He wanted to focus on the question of how much nickel should be in a plessitic octahedrite.

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